Walkthrough (Chapter Eleven) part 5

The final of the two stages on the eleventh chapter is a boss fight. In fact, this game has nothing but boss fights for you now. When Gabriel arrives here, he'll run into a creature that we can only presume is Death... or this version of Castlevania's verison of Death, if that makes any sense. Nonetheless, after some talk back and forth, this foe won't keep his normal form. The creature you'll be fighting instead is megalithic. This monster, known as the Dracolich Titan, is the first Titan you've fought in some time. And it's the last Titan you'll fight in the entire game. Are you ready?

This boss is daunting, at least initially. But you'll find that, though this fight is quite time consuming, you should still be able to efficiently beat this boss with little issue. It's all about taking your time, and resisting the urge to rush for any reason whatsoever. Rushing and not paying attention will force you to try again rather quickly, and you'll want to avoid that at all costs. So seriously, heed our words. Take your time, go through the motions slowly, and you'll be just fine. Expect the fight to take about ten minutes at most (though you'll need to cut that time down significantly if and when you try to complete this stage's trial). Our instructions will be a little bit vague, because this fight isn't free-form at all. Rather, it's about starting from the beginning of a long sequence, and working your way through the entire fight.

To start things off, you'll be on a platform, with the aerial Titan flying all around you. After a few moments, he'll eventually storm your position, blowing green smoke all over the place. As he flies overhead while doing this, dodge his attack, and turn around so that you're facing the creature as he flies off into the distance. Start tapping the R2/right trigger button hereafter, and Gabriel should attach himself to the whip hook underneath the back end of the Titan. You'll then be on the Titan, looking for a few green-colored ruins to destroy. All the while, the creature will attempt to shake you off. This happens regularly, every ten or fifteen seconds. You've run into this on the other Titans, so just be sure to follow the on-screen prompt when he attempts to shake you off. If you fall, you'll have to start from the beginning (though you can save yourself from certain death by following a quicktime event on the way back down).

Things may seem confusing here, but actually, your approach to this fight is totally linear. In the early-going, the general idea is simply to walk, grapple, and otherwise shimmy your way around the beast in the only directions possible. When you're shimmying along the creature's spine, for instance, and can't advance, it's likely that you'll have to drop onto its ribs, and then begin to swing along the edge of the ribs to continue. As you do this over and over again, you'll eventually start grappling to new places underneath the creature's belly. Advancing towards the first rune takes some time, but thankfully, things are rather straight forward. Don't make your advance more complicated than it has to be.